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B Cell Study Indicates Promising Direction for Anti-parasitic Vaccines

February 1, 2022

Creating vaccines to train the immune system against parasites is particularly challenging. They are also highly specialized masters of immune evasion. Some parasites can secrete proteins that bind to immune cell molecules, manipulating them for their survival purposes. Some have complex and fast...

NSF Award Goes to Research into Brain Formation and What Leads to Developmental Disorders

January 26, 2022

Professor Xuecai Ge, a developmental neurobiologist, has received a CAREER award for research to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that direct brain formation, and how errors in cell signaling lead to developmental disorders. Ge is the 31st number researcher from UC Merced to earn a CAREER...

Director of Pre-Law Studies to Tackle Racism at Sacramento City Unified School District

January 21, 2022

UC Merced’s Director of Pre-Law Studies Mark Harris is taking on a new position to help address racism at Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). Officials for the school district created a new position for Harris as district liaison to provide independent recommendations to the district...

Campus Gains New Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer

January 21, 2022

UC Merced has appointed Daniel T. Okoli, Ph.D., as vice chancellor and chief operating officer, overseeing Planning and Development, Facilities, the UC Merced Police Department and several other departments. In announcing the appointment, Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz called Okoli “a deeply...

Give to UC Merced 2021 Raises Nearly $230,000 in Campus Support

January 20, 2022

In December, the Give to UC Merced 2021 fundraising initiative surpassed the targeted goal of $100,000, garnering a total of $227,569 to support programs and people throughout the university. Give to UC Merced 2021 was the second year in a row that the initiative has been held over an entire month...

New Climate-focused Agriculture Program Aims to Train Students, Professionals and Farmers

January 18, 2022

California is the largest and the most diverse agricultural economy in the nation with revenue exceeding $50 billion — larger than the combined agricultural economies of the other 10 western states. But the state and its residents, especially the disadvantaged, are highly vulnerable to the...

Campus Receives Grant to Provide Financial Support to Students in Service to Communities

January 18, 2022

As part of the 2021-22 Governor’s California Comeback Plan, UC Merced students will get the opportunity to serve their community while receiving financial support for college through the new program #CaliforniaForAll College Fellowship. Modeled after the pilot Civic Action program launched in 2020...

UC Merced Team Wins CITRIS’s Inaugural Student Aviation Competition

January 14, 2022

A team from UC Merced comprising eight undergraduate and graduate students has won the inaugural CITRIS Aviation Prize. For engineering the winning proposal, they will receive a $2,000 cash award, as well as a $25,000 budget to support a live demonstration of their flight in spring 2022. Launched...

UC Merced Extends Remote Teaching by One Extra Week

January 7, 2022

UC Merced will delay the start of in-person instruction in light of the highly contagious omicron coronavirus variant sweeping the nation, but otherwise is moving forward with plans for on-site courses and carefully coordinated campus operations for spring semester. Resident students are scheduled...

UC Merced Prepares for Spring Semester, Girds for Omicron

January 4, 2022

UC Merced will briefly delay the start of in-person instruction in light of the highly contagious omicron coronavirus variant sweeping the nation, but otherwise is moving forward with plans for on-site courses and carefully coordinated campus operations for spring semester. Resident students are...